Kai, The Informologist

Nichole

Final week after dead week.
Man, it can get a little bothersome.

Since its beginning, I thought I could always care less, after all, its no big deal.
To be or not to be, its not gonna be my say.
I thought I had things in control.
Now I felt like I do care.
That sort of emptiness senses came back haunting. Darn it.

Cultivating hopes is like cultivating your own down fall.
Every so often we trust what we think can be trusted (most of the time, ourselves).

I haven’t felt this l-o-n-e-l-y in awhile.
But I believe its gonna go away soon lah.

Mama-mi-ya.

Another fabulous piece of work by Debbie Ridpath Ohi, a.k.a Inkygirl

Everybody who works in the real world envy the college students, every college students envies the high school students. Its such a vicious cycle of not treasuring the present and regretting upon hindsight.

Now a week from the end of semester and two weeks counting for finals, final papers, final project presentations. I’m trying to catch up with my MS-Word word count shortcuts, educational documentaries to explain for unexplained procrastination, and all the good stuff.

Lately, while researching on ‘E-commerce’, ‘Reputation System’, I try not to neglect the research on Blogline. Always keeping my eyes on the titles with words like ‘CRAZY’ or ‘NEW’, or ‘HOWTO’. Just taking my next step towards geekhood. I better be ready for MBA if this is to go on.

One of the best ways to relax on the weeks before final, as I have discovered, is not by reading more news, or blogs, or message board (well, soccernet is not technically any of the above, so its good), but instead by focusing on pages with images. I had this talent of seeking admist text since I was like what, 5?

So today, while attempting to work on the ‘Piano Master’, I spotted something that resembles that of an image.

‘Ah ha! ‘

And its something I’ve yet to see. Good!

Now I know what I can do between my 15 minutes Ramen-time.

Will Write 4 Chocolate – I love books, yet there are so many written/unwritten/unpublished books by authors, whose names we will never learn. A good sense of humor for the hardworking bunch. //

Parry and Carney – Now, I have no idea the relationship between the comics and title of the comic. This is like an emergency comic. To be used at times that you feel calm and need to be agitated (or for the lack of a better word – encouraged). You will enjoy this. I’m sure. //

Good luck for the coming 2 weeks. To me too.

Thank God for freeing up so much time today to work on my paper; literally.

Caption: Pick your poison by Scott Ableman

So I think I have grown chubbier in the past month or so since coming back from Spring Break.

Now, I’m quite sure the Spring Break feast couldn’t have done quite as much damage as it is, so its gotta be something else. I ponder and wonder, I think and I thought. Then ‘Ring’ (or something), a light bulb lights up.

You see, I rarely have breakfast each morning, especially after I ran out of milk a month ago. So hungry as I am after the 930 class ended, I tend to go to the closest food source there is – IMU. Rather than choosing healthier foods like subs or … pizza? I would conveniently go for the fast food, Burger King.

Mystery solved! Its the accumulation of burger + fries and soda that landed me my junior 15 (no, it cannot be supported by evidence, I haven’t weigh myself in ages).

Solution: Quit Burger King right after the semester ends.

I am a hardworking part-time student

When you are a blogger in 2001, all you can do when it comes to blog is seeping through layers of text, with the occasional luck of meeting some colorful collages of Spiderman or picture of your PM. Freelancing back then is truly about creativity.

Looking ahead, well, say today, we are unknowingly surrounded by an infinite overloaded informational Internet that spans all the way around the entire planet. Spitting out daily Bollywood digests, images of the exotic Galápagos Islands, summing up sessions of conferences, or more important news about Paris Hilton and whatever she did with Lindsay Lohan last night.

If there’s a better time to start freelancing and sharing, its probably now.
You may write codes, reviews, DIYs, thousand-word essays, whatever it maybe. You will get an audience.

I’m sadly restricted by both my literature ability and technology skills to publish anything spectacular, yet. However, with my collection of 74 core RSS feeds, I’m willed to cover all the 7 continents and 5 oceans.

Listed are some of the daily readings that I feel are essential for you to stay on top of things:

Digg! – You dig? I dig man! You decide whats good and cool for the community. It try to stay up to date on ‘breaking news’.

Lifehacker – You are missing out a large part of your (geek?) life by leaving out this for your daily digest. Name says it, hacker of life – lifehacker.

Cute Overload – Even a manly man needs ‘to feel the touch of a fuzzy bunny’ from time to time (as described by Folie, my STC co-worker). Yes, we love animals. Stop global warming. I’m serious!

PhD Comics – It’s not really a daily thing; but I think it’s a healthy read for several days in a week. Although it says PhD comics, if you are a grad student, try to stay away from it. Depression takes too long to heal.

Seattle Daily Photo – Miss Seattle? I do.

So there you go, that’s some links for you to start off with.
Feel free to share you must-have daily reads (you know those that motivate you to get off your bed at 7 in the morning?).

Tomorrow, we will go into the detail benefits of those reads.
Have a blastful day! If you are in Indiana, go grab some sunshine, its FREE!

Lynchburg Virginia

Many times, we defend our views and values to the point of altering them.
In the same manner, Christians are often viewed as overly aggressive when sharing gospels and defending Christianity.

It’s the truth we are speaking. But sadly, they are spoken without love.
Without the love that is the base of our faith.

Just like the letter written to the Ephesus, its like a reminder to us today.

I pray that from today on, whatever, whenever, wherever I speak, it speaks truth, and yet with love.

Lynchburg Virginia

Many times, we defend our views and values to the point of altering them.
In the same manner, Christians are often viewed as overly aggressive when sharing gospels and defending Christianity.

It’s the truth we are speaking. But sadly, they are spoken without love.
Without the love that is the base of our faith.

Just like the letter written to the Ephesus, its like a reminder to us today.

I pray that from today on, whatever, whenever, wherever I speak, it speaks truth, and yet with love.

I just sent out my cover letter & resume.

One click – one adventure. A daring adventure.

It is quite difficult to imagine ‘the point of no return’ for our planet.

If not for the documentary, I would have no idea that a series of drought have occurred in Spain, leaving crops which used to be one meter tall, just a dozen centimeters tall and harvest only 1/3 of the past years for 3 years straight. The same issue of drought is bothering countries like Australia and China, on the two ends of the hemispheres.

Nor would I be aware of the possibility of the Amazon river drying up.

Although erosion of islands is predictable, but what is not predictable is the production of 1/4 of a billion environmental refugees from the coastal region of the world.

The narrator left the question of our wisdom in dealing with such a problem. We know the problem and we know the solution. Is money really bigger than everything? Has our societies not enough indulgence in the pursuit of wealth that our environment, our living habitat plays no part in their decision anymore?

I have not grew up imagining being the decision-maker of the world tomorrow. Not a tomorrow that has dried up rain forests, disappearing continents; not a tomorrow where we decide how our children may live to see.

Think about it, we have had a six-month long winter. Half a year long winter.

Step it up, world.

See, nothing is certain.

Even when it comes to my cooking.

I’m seeing things as karma now. Not necessarily things come and things go, but more of a way to train and be taught of the proper way to live. Rewards or punishment is by no means our option. As a believer, I believe the authority is with God.

I do not merit myself in the past weeks for anything deserving. So there you go, off it goes.

Pray to God that He forgives.

The barbarian hosted the first beating, but we have the final roar.
Final score 7-1.
Aggregate: 8-3

It was half-time.
I’m speechless (good thing).
I’m glad I borrowed the laptop from the library.

No surprise here.
Now, we play.

It’s been a week.
Now, we play.

Thanks to UNEASYsilence, we all get a glimpse of hope.

I’ve been working hard, sweat and blood to earn and save.
But still, I don’t want to pay $500 for a Wii and a bundle of games that I don’t really need.

As I have said earlier on, my roomate bought two Wiis – one for his gf and one for his friend.
I have none.
Do you?

If not, don’t just sit on the couch. Do something uneasy for once and check out the Wii giveaway at UNEASYsilence.com!

God bless those who are generous!

It’s just been TOO darn long.
Even my room’s gf bought one!

It’s just been TOO darn long.
Even my room’s gf bought one!

Okay, it was not scorching or anything close, but it was warm and sometimes hot.
That was the weather last week.

Today, it snowed. Not like heavy or anything. But it snowed.

Amazing.

Anyways, I had some issue with hiccups yesterday while working, and I think I scared away quite a few customers with my bobling head and all. People told me to drink water, tried to scare me, and even holding breathe for 30 minutes (yes, he said 30 minutes).

It went away eventually, but hey, it was really bothering me and I have no clue. Now, thanks to Lifehack. I do. So if you get a hiccup epic, tried any of these.

Good luck.

I miss summer 2005.
Hope for a good summer 2007.

Joy & I might be taking class at NSCC. Might be.
If so, it’s gonna be really cool.

If its the test of characters.
You guys got it.
Now, C’MON!

If its the test of characters.
You guys got it.
Now, C’MON!